Talk:Sleep-learning

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 * Fox, B., & Robbin, J. (1952). The retention of material presented during sleep. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 43, 75-79.
 * Leshan, L. (1942). The breaking of a habit by suggestion during sleep. Journal of Abnormal Social Psychology, 37, 406-408.

At least one of these references only occurs on a single web page. Can anyone check these references? What's the current state of the art in sleep learning? -- The Anome 15:11, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)


 * By my understanding, the practice has been dismissed by experts in the field. I've edited the article to reflect this. --Tothebarricades.tk 02:11, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Donald Ewen Cameron used this as a part of a larger memory erasing and mental reprogramming technique he called "de-patterning" while he worked in the CIA project MKULTRA. 128.95.5.131 (talk) 16:43, 28 January 2008 (UTC)


 * In A Clockwork Orange, hypnopaedia isn't used to brainwash Alex into becoming good (that was the Ludovico Technique), it was used to reverse the brainwashing so that he could be "normal" again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.27.178.231 (talk) 21:42, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I am restoring the links, they are legitimate. Inclusionist (talk) 14:33, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Discredited
Is this technique now discredited?--UhOhFeeling (talk) 03:13, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Confusion of terms?
I was under the impression hypnopædia concerned only learning. This article seems mainly concerned with hypnotherapy using self-hypnosis tapes to achieve behavioural changes. Aren't the two different? AlmostReadytoFly (talk) 21:05, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

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 * While sleep-learning does not actually work in real life, it was explored in earnest by scientists during the early twentieth century and has found its way into some influential science fiction and other literature.

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 * While sleep-learning does actually work in real life, it was explored in earnest by scientists during the early twentieth century and has found its way into some influential science fiction and other literature.

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 * The purported weakness of hypnopædia was that such learning would be entirely by rote, unconnected to other knowledge and conceptually void.

I am restoring these edits. Inclusionist (talk) 14:29, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

You can learn in your sleep it will soon be proven. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.93.179.30 (talk) 01:55, 12 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Today, I saw several articles such as this one about a study by Northwestern University which reports that playing specific sounds during slow-wave sleep can reinforce existing memories. Several other related articles on that study exist, such as WebMD article and this NPR story. I think these articles show that there is existing evidence that sleep-learning can be effective. --Apollo1758 (talk) 02:24, 20 November 2009 (UTC)